Most Prevalent Service Connected Disabilities FY2014

[Tbird]

Most Prevalent Service Connected Disabilities FY2014 Each of the disabilities has a link that takes you to forum posts referring to that disability I hope you find it helpful, the entire report is there as well and provides interesting statistics.

[Andyman73]

Tbird,

Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

Andyman73

Semper Fi

[Buck52]

Thanks Ms T

I am going to book mark this...good to know info.

..............Buck

[Vync]

Tinnitus rate @ 7.2% means the military needs to provide better hearing protection

[OldJoe]

LOL, love how they provide hearing protection but for practical reason you cannot use it.  I remember as a AF Security Police you needed to be able to hear your radio.  Even if you were on the flight line with jet engines screaming, you still had to hear the radio.  I don't want to think what trouble I would have gotten into if I tried to use the excuse that I had my ear plugs in...

[Andyman73]

OldJoe,

I know exactly what you mean.  When on the FL for maintenance on KC-130s, I wore earplugs under my cranial's ear muffs.  But not in the workshop.  If you didn't answer the phone, folks got concerned.

I told them at the audiology clinic, when asked about hearing protection use, that we can't wear them in the shop.  My shop was at the back end of the hanger, next to the main door. If our shop door was open, for airflow, we could hear everything coming and going. One end of the main runway was close by, so when ever they were launching in that direction, we got the full brunt of the sound waves, especially since our door was in direct line of sight of the flight line.

The worst were the EA-6B Prowlers! They always had their throttles at full military power, and the sound was so deafening that my ears would be overloaded, the sound being distorted because the volume was beyond the capabilities of the human ear to handle.  Like your car speakers when the sound is turned too far up.

I'm glad that they were not authorized for afterburners at that end of the flight line, since it went over the mainland side of the base.  If so, all the other fast movers would have been lightin em up!

Semper Fi